Spiritually-trans commie wizard. Platonist and Christian-agnostic. Easily discredited. Mostly shitposts.
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ForlongDux retweeted
Antisthenes was big on etymology:
ἀρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις.
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The beginning of education is the examination of words.
Epictetus, Discourses 1.17.12
ForlongDux retweeted
This is Jon Husted. The man whose body is driving trump crazy:
Trump on Jon Husted: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
ForlongDux retweeted
I am very fond of Martin Heidegger, he is one of my favourite philosophers, but the bit on him in Thomas Bernhard's 'Old Masters' is profoundly hilarious:
'Heidegger had a common face, not a spiritual one, Reger said, he was through and through an unspiritual person, devoid of all fantasy, devoid of all sensibility, a genuine German philosophical ruminant, a ceaselessly gravid German philosophical cow, Reger said, which grazed upon German philosophy and thereupon for decades let its smart little cowpats drop on it.'
ForlongDux retweeted
This whole election is coming down to 3 issues and I don’t think democrats have answers to the 3 things American care about most?
1. Should we allow schools to change the sex of pre-schoolers without parents even knowing?
2. How will we save women’s sports?
3. Does the United States deserve first rate ballroom dancing?
ForlongDux retweeted
The western Massachusetts COVID-conscious lesbian bar story keeps reminding me of this document from the early CIA
ForlongDux retweeted
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the greatest possible degree.”
I haven’t been able to shake this statement of Pound’s, from his 1929 ‘How to Read.’
It’s so beautifully portable across the arts.
ForlongDux retweeted
I will return to this paragraph by C. S. Lewis at least once a week until the day I die
ForlongDux retweeted
Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery: not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power.
Maya Annik Bedward's BLACK ZOMBIE is now playing in theaters: knlor.com/blackzombie
ForlongDux retweeted
When this comes up I mostly think of this interview with Michael Ironside, when he asked Verhoeven point blank why he was making a right wing movie. avclub.com/michael-ironside-…
ForlongDux retweeted
"Les réseaux sociaux ont donné le droit de parole à des légions d'imbéciles qui, avant, ne parlaient qu'au bar, après un verre de vin et ne causaient aucun tort à la collectivité. On les faisait taire tout de suite alors qu'aujourd'hui ils ont le même droit de parole qu'un prix Nobel. C'est l'invasion des imbéciles."
Umberto Eco
ForlongDux retweeted
I love people who have survived enough to become strange instead of cruel. Give me the person with peculiar rituals. Too many books. A bizarre sense of humor. Three different lives already lived. An oddly specific obsession. A softness they had every excuse to lose. Those are my people.
